The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) today (June 4) alerted members of the public to a fraudulent website with the domain name "http://ird-govhk[.]info/www[.]ird[.]gov[.]hk" and the fake email account "taxfaq@ird-govhk[.]info". The IRD has no connection with the fraudulent website and the email account.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited on fraudulent website and phishing email, which has been reported to the HKMA.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by China CITIC Bank International Limited on fraudulent website, which has been reported to the HKMA.

VMware has published a security advisory to address a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) issue in the service opener, an issue in the shader functionality and a memory leak vulnerability in the VMCI module.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on phishing email, which has been reported to the HKMA.

The office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (PCPD) would like to alert members of the public to the following phishing email and fraudulent website. The email was not issued by the PCPD and the website was not set up by the PCPD.

The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) released the latest results of the “SSH Hong Kong Enterprise Cyber Security Readiness Index Survey”, which reports an Overall Index at 46.9 (maximum being 100), a slight decrease of 2.4 from the survey last year.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on phishing email, which has been reported to the HKMA.

HKCERT urges organisations to raise their awareness of the risks relating to remote access services, and immediately implement necessary security measures and conduct security assessments to ensure that these services are used in a safe manner.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on phishing emails, which has been reported to the HKMA.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on fraudulent website and phishing SMS message, which has been reported to the HKMA.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on fraudulent website and phishing email, which has been reported to the HKMA.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on fraudulent websites, which has been reported to the HKMA.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by China CITIC Bank International Limited on fraudulent website, which has been reported to the HKMA.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on phishing email, which has been reported to the HKMA.

In response to online rumours about potential security risk in the StayHomeSafe system, a spokesman for the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer made the following clarification today (March 27)…

VMware has published a security advisory to address use-after-free vulnerability in vmnetdhcp, improper file permissions in Cortado Thinprint, and improper protection for the configuration files of the VMware USB arbitration service.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on phishing emails, which has been reported to the HKMA

Microsoft has released security updates addressing multiple vulnerabilities which affect several Microsoft products or components. Reports indicate that active exploitation against the vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server for remote code execution have been observed. Microsoft also identified a new vulnerability in its Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3) protocol.

Among various wireless technologies, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) has become one of the most widely used wireless technology for IoT devices due to its low power consumption, low cost and feasibility on applications.

Known as “juice jacking”, hackers would load malwares on charging stations or cables they leave plugged in at the stations through special USB devices so they could infect the phones of unsuspecting users…

In March of 2020, insecure versions of the protocol TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will approach end-of-support. For the sake of security, IT infrastructure supported by TLS needs to be upgraded to the secure versions of TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3…

In response to media enquiry about the use of information on social media for tracking potential carriers of COVID-19, the office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) makes the following response...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by Bank of Singapore Limited on suspicious mobile application (App), which has been reported to the HKMA.

To address the issue, Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) has summarized some security tips for companies and those employees working at home to refer to and implement...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited on fraudulent websites, which has been reported to the HKMA.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on phishing email, which has been reported to the HKMA.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on phishing email, which has been reported to the HKMA.

When many countries are doing their best to combat the novel coronavirus, cyber security researchers have found that hacker groups have been preying on the fears of human to launch a new round of malicious spam (malspam) attacks to spread the Emotet trojan.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to a press release issued by Bank of Singapore Limited on suspicious application (App), which has been reported to the HKMA.

(Hong Kong, 16 January 2020) The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) today urged enterprises and the public to keep up their vigilance against an anticipated surge in cyber attacks arising from the use of new technologies…

Mozilla has published two security advisories (MFSA 2020-01 and MFSA 2020-02) to address multiple browser vulnerabilities. Reports indicate that active exploitation against the vulnerability has been observed.